Stick-feeder.



W. H. WALDRON.

STICK FEEDER. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 9. 1907.

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PATENTED JUNE 25, 1907.

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ATTORNEYS W. H. WALDRON.

STICK FEEDER. APPLIOATIONIPILED MAR. 9. 1907.

PATENTEDIJVUNE 25, 1907.

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WILLIAM IIUBELI WALDRON, OF NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO JOHNWALDRON COMPANY, OF NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY.

STICK-FEEDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 25, 1907.

Application filed M91011 9,1907. Serial No. 361,451-

To 00% whom it may concert t.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HUBELI WALnRoN, a citizen of the UnitedStates,

and a resident of New Brunswick, in the county of Middlesex and State ofNew J ersey, have invented a new and Improved Stick-Feeder, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to drying machines, such as used in themanufacture of wall paper and the like, and its object is to provide anew and improved stick feeder arranged for properly spacing the sticksused as supports in hanging up the freshly coated or printed paper fordrying or other purposes.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations ofthe same, which will be more fully described hereinafter and thenpointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in theaccompanying drawings 1 forming a part of this specification, in whichsimilar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both theviews.

Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of the improvement, and Fig. 2 isa transverse section of the same on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

On a suitably constructed frame or standards A is mounted a hopper B forreceiving sticks C, adapted td pass singly, one after the other, intothe entrance or upper end D of a sinuous guide D, secured to or formedon the sides of the standards A, as plainly illustrated in the drawings.Any desired number of bends may be given to the sinuous guide D, so thatthe latter contains a large number of sticks, one on top of the other,and traveling downward in the sinuous guide by their own gravity, thesticks being finally discharged at the lower or discharge end D of theguide D into registering notches E of spacing wheels E, secured on ashaft F journaled in suitable bearings on the frame or standards A. Thewheels E in rotating deliver the sticks singlyv onto endless carrierchains G provided with lugs or projections G, against which rest thesticks O, as indicated in Fig. 1, and which the carrier chains G deliverconsecutively to the drying machines properly spaced apart.

The carrier chains G pass over sprocket wheels II secured on atransverse shaft I journaled in suitable bearings on the main frame A,and on the said shaft I is secured a pulley J connected by a belt withother machinery for imparting a continuous rotary motion to the shaft Iand the sprocket wheels H, so that the latter causes the sprocket chainsG to travel in the direction of the arrows a. On the shaft I is alsosecured a gear wheel K in mesh with a larger gear wheel L secured on theshaft F of the spacing wheels E, so that the latter are rotated inunison with the travel given to the carrier chains G, and hence a stickis delivered to the carrier chains for each pair of transversely alinedlugs or projections G.

In order to prevent a stick from flying out while held in the notches Eof the spacing wheels E, guards N are provided, extending on thedelivery sides of the spacing wheels E, as plainly indicated in Fig. 1.

By reference to Fig. 1 it will be seen that only the lowermost stick inthe sinuous guide D can pass into a set of registering notches E of thespacing wheels E, and as the latter rotate in the direction of the arrow6, it is evident that the stick in the top notches E is carried alongand downwardly, and the next set of empty notches E in registering withthe discharge end D of the guide D is filled with another stick, and soon, and when the stick in a pair of notches E reaches a bottom position,it drops out of the registering notches down onto the carrier chains G,immediately in front of a corresponding pair of lugs G.

By gearing the spacing wheels E in the manner described, small sizedspacing wheels can be used relative to the lugs G spaced largerdistances apart, as will be readily understood by reference to Fig. 1.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent A stick feeder comprising a frame, a hopper mounted onthe frame, an endless carrier having spaced lugs below the hopper andspaced apart therefrom, a sinuous guide leading from the hopper andterminating above the carrier, rotatable spacing wheels having notchesfor receiving the sticks arranged at the lower end of said sinuous guidefor receiving the sticks therefrom and depositing them on the carrier,and guards partially inclosing the spacing Wheels and means inconnection With the carrier for rotating said spacing Wheels.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

WILLIAM HUBELI WALDRON. Witnesses E. A. WALDRON, W. E. VAN DEVENTER.

